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Worst gaming sequels of all time?
- Thread starter The Bad Guy
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Nothing did me dirty like Fallout 4 and Disgaea 6.
OK, that's going back some, but can't deny that one, too.
Yes- this. It's awful.
And I'm not part of the ongoing revisionism that posits it's actually not that bad / a diamond in the rough / the single best controlling third person shooting.
It's a dull, boring, oddly designed chore of a game and it being named RE cannot redeem it.
THPS5 is one of the lowest effort, "WHY?!" Sequel releases ever that was excreted seemingly due to licensing expiring.
The more you look into and learn about the game the worse it is.
I was really dissapointed after I had so much fun with Alundra 1.
The 2nd game only had the name, and that was it.
My pick for bad sequel is Invisible War. I think Deadly Shadows is a good game.
Hot take: ME2. It starts with literal character assassination in order to force you into working with the space Nazis, which you only get a chance to back talk at the very end of 3, and even then only if you maintained 90% Paragon/renegade. It's completely superfluous to the plot. And the gameplay removed like all the RPG elements
I remember handing over the cash to buy it and the guy behind the counter warning me what a mistake I was making. I didn't listen, had to find out the hard way :(
Oh shit, even when the cashier guy warns you, this is seriously a big fat no.
I only rented it gladfully, still I was seriously baffled why this was 3D an Alundra looked nothing like Alundra. :/
I feel it is worth mentioning that Mega Man Legends had already went for a transition to 3D but did a great job approaching a lot of the problems that come with it.
No, it is. I can see any other DMC being someone's favorite game but 2 just has nothing going for it. Compared to what came before and after it's shockingly bad.
The nightmare system in Mega Man X6 literally let's you change stage effects at will. Its a very tough game with obvious development woes but if a stage seems too hard exit and shift the nightmares. The option is there and intentional!
Game designed around replayability from normal ps1 era Mega Man X difficulty to kaizo Mega Man and you have full control
Game designed around replayability from normal ps1 era Mega Man X difficulty to kaizo Mega Man and you have full control
Won't hear any Perfect Dark Zero slander.
Was playing it recently to get full achevments in Rare Replay. It's pretty neat. Still love the graphics. I'm glad there was a short moment in time where bump mapping everything was in vogue. The rubbery characters, the shiny guns. And the bricks. The bricks, bro!
The more I think on it, the more I enjoyed it.
Game legit felt like a shitty looking concept render of what a theoretical Next Gen game might look like came to life.
Was playing it recently to get full achevments in Rare Replay. It's pretty neat. Still love the graphics. I'm glad there was a short moment in time where bump mapping everything was in vogue. The rubbery characters, the shiny guns. And the bricks. The bricks, bro!
The more I think on it, the more I enjoyed it.
Game legit felt like a shitty looking concept render of what a theoretical Next Gen game might look like came to life.
Myth 3, moved to a new dev and given like 10 months from start to finish to put it out. Went as you'd expect from that.
I'd go with Double Dragon 3 (then I'll leave because these threads usually devolve in things like "I'll list this acclaimed and good game because for some reason I did not like it so it is a bad sequel")
Yes, thanks for posting this. I am certain it's a meme but I keep seeing it, too.
"RE6 is actually really good", etc.
I mean, people are entitled to have bad, horrible taste, I guess.
Blood Omen 1 was a narratively dense exploration of morality and manipulation. It took place in a world that was painstakingly well-realised, with such a rich history split across multiple parallel timelines. You play a newly-created vampire who explores the extent of his dozens of evolving powers as vehicles for mass murder, while trying to maintain some semblance of his humanity. The world is vast, full of exploration opportunities and an unbelievable amount of secrets. The game reaches an incredible conclusion as Kain battles his way through changing histories, possessed allies until he is faced with a final crushing deception - that the only way to preserve what little humanity remains is by suicide - leading to a final grim moment of choice. It is everything.
Blood Omen 2 is a subpar linear action game where you play (according to the boxart and PR "the most evil character in a videogame"). You collect six new powers in boss battles. You can sometimes turn into mist. You progress through the linear city-themed levels until you have the final boss battle with the King Alien. The baddie base blows up. The end.
In terms of narrative depth, tone, ambition and thematic breadth, the differece between these two titles is almost immeasurable.
Blood Omen 2 is a subpar linear action game where you play (according to the boxart and PR "the most evil character in a videogame"). You collect six new powers in boss battles. You can sometimes turn into mist. You progress through the linear city-themed levels until you have the final boss battle with the King Alien. The baddie base blows up. The end.
In terms of narrative depth, tone, ambition and thematic breadth, the differece between these two titles is almost immeasurable.
Heroes of Might and Magic 7.
HoMM 1-3 were genre defining masterpieces that have an insane amount of support from fans till this very day (for Christ's sake, there is an entire orchestra that regularly plays only HoMM music and is always booked).
HoMM 4 was an interesting if flawed experiment. 5 was a solid reboot. 6 was meh but serviceable. 7 was so bad it single-handedly killed the entire franchise.
HoMM 1-3 were genre defining masterpieces that have an insane amount of support from fans till this very day (for Christ's sake, there is an entire orchestra that regularly plays only HoMM music and is always booked).
HoMM 4 was an interesting if flawed experiment. 5 was a solid reboot. 6 was meh but serviceable. 7 was so bad it single-handedly killed the entire franchise.
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Blood 2 and DMC2 are definitely strong contenders, as others have posted, but they do have some redeeming qualities and creativity put into them. Flatout 3 is the drizzling shits just outright, I played it as a joke once and didn't last more than ten minutes, it's horrible even on its own, let alone as a follow-up to well loved prior games.
I knew a guy who played Blood 2 but not Blood 1 - and it ended up basically being a real life version of that Curb Your Enthusiasm bit where he's flabbergasted that anyone could have seen The Sting 2 but not The Sting 1, lol
I knew a guy who played Blood 2 but not Blood 1 - and it ended up basically being a real life version of that Curb Your Enthusiasm bit where he's flabbergasted that anyone could have seen The Sting 2 but not The Sting 1, lol
Hitman Absolution
As a stealth action game in it's own right, it's not so bad.
As a follow up to Blood Money / the Hitman series in general, it's fucking terrible
Linear levels, disguises were broken and extremely limited options when it came to the targets.
All is forgiven after the World of Assassination Trilogy though.
As a stealth action game in it's own right, it's not so bad.
As a follow up to Blood Money / the Hitman series in general, it's fucking terrible
Linear levels, disguises were broken and extremely limited options when it came to the targets.
All is forgiven after the World of Assassination Trilogy though.
I'm so mad about this one. Felt like a huge downgrade from Diablo 3, while still not being able to compete with Path of Exile.
Was going to post this.
It's not a horrible game it's just... eeeeeeeh. Ugly as hell, the tone is all over the place, the art direction too, the level design is boring but the combat still feels good most of the time.
This is mine. Deus Ex will always have a spot on my PC. Invisible War is hidden from my Steam library.
Bioshock Infinite.
One of the worst games that's supposed to be good. For 1-2 hours there's definitely some awesome stuff to be seen and some setpieces are great. It's a shame that 90% of the game feels like soulless copy & paste, including gameplay and overall game design. I replayed it recently and was shocked by how fast playing it got old.
Nothing else comes to mind right now.
One of the worst games that's supposed to be good. For 1-2 hours there's definitely some awesome stuff to be seen and some setpieces are great. It's a shame that 90% of the game feels like soulless copy & paste, including gameplay and overall game design. I replayed it recently and was shocked by how fast playing it got old.
Nothing else comes to mind right now.
Of the ones I've played and can think off the top of my head, Sticker Star and Devil May Cry 2. And quite a handful of Mega Man series games.
It can be pretty fun if I stop comparing it to the original and enjoy it as a more console-focused spinoff game. It's super short, and has nowhere near the complexity of the original, but it can still be pretty fun to sneak around, find gigantic air vents and do some im-sim lite nonsense. I still wish, though, that it wasn't so incredibly held back by console hardware. The fact that you can't have big levels and everything is cut into tiny levels with loading screens everywhere hurts IW so much.
These popped into my head:
Uncharted 4
Awful story, game was really dull and I hated playing as Nates brother and so many areas were a borefest like the Scotland section.
Resistance 2
Everything that made the first game great was removed from the sequel. Can't remember the main guys name but going from a silent protagonist to a guy who would not shut up was annoying. Dull levels and I hated the fact that you got given a powered weapon just before every boss fight.
Mortal Kombat 4
Heavily stripped down game compared to the original trilogy didn't like anything about this at all. Killed the franchise for me until MK9
Dark Souls 2
Humanoid bosses, terrible levels, borked rolling, cheating AI, dull story etc game was awful on so many levels.
Uncharted 4
Awful story, game was really dull and I hated playing as Nates brother and so many areas were a borefest like the Scotland section.
Resistance 2
Everything that made the first game great was removed from the sequel. Can't remember the main guys name but going from a silent protagonist to a guy who would not shut up was annoying. Dull levels and I hated the fact that you got given a powered weapon just before every boss fight.
Mortal Kombat 4
Heavily stripped down game compared to the original trilogy didn't like anything about this at all. Killed the franchise for me until MK9
Dark Souls 2
Humanoid bosses, terrible levels, borked rolling, cheating AI, dull story etc game was awful on so many levels.
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Crysis 2
instead of improving on the somewhat rough open world sandbox aspect of Crysis 1, it turned into a wanna be CoD linear scripted singleplayer corridor shooter that was pretty boring overall
instead of improving on the somewhat rough open world sandbox aspect of Crysis 1, it turned into a wanna be CoD linear scripted singleplayer corridor shooter that was pretty boring overall
